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Ron enjoyed having Harry and Ginny come over to his and Hermione's place. They'd make an evening out of the occasion, with games and food and music. Usually, they played some sort of Muggle game that involved a board or some version of cards. But this time something different was suggested.

Ron blinked when the box was pulled out of the cupboard where Hermione stored the games she had brought with her from her childhood home. He didn't understand how one could pursue trivia.

Ginny looked just as confused about the game as Ron was. She was studying the box with a mixture of caution and awe. Like she'd never seen a game such as this before.

"How do you play it?" Ron asked, watching as Harry and Hermione shared a look. "How does one pursue the trivia?"

Hermione started to giggle at this. "You don't pursue the trivia, Ron," she told him. "It's a board game."

Ron gave Hermione a quizzical look. How could one pursue trivia on a board? He watched as Hermione lifted the box lid off the game. She then pulled out a board and opened it on the table. The board contained a circle split into pieces. Each piece had a different color. The colors were blue, orange, yellow, pink, green, and brown. Then Hermione pulled out a smaller box. Opening that box's lid revealed a whole bunch of cards. Then she pulled out a bag with a whole bunch of tiny pieces in it.

"Don't you think we should explain the rules of the game to them, Hermione?" Harry asked, watching as Hermione pulled out four pieces for each of them. "I don't think they play Trivial Pursuit in the Wizarding World much."

Ron listened as Hermione explained the rules of the game. It seemed pretty straight forward. The person whose turn it was rolled the dice and then moved the number of spaces they rolled. Once they stopped on a color, the person had to answer the corresponding question for that color.

"Are these all going to be Muggle question?" Ron asked, seeing everyone turned to look at him. He wasn't trying to be ungrateful for the game but it wouldn't have been fair to him and Ginny if all the questions were gear towards Muggle topics.

"I don't think they have a non-Muggle Trivial Pursuit yet," Hermione stated.

Ron was about to state his opinion about how unfair that was when Harry pulled him aside with a smile.

"What are you smiling about, Harry?" Ron asked, sounding as though Harry had just lost his mind. "This isn't fair. You and Hermione will be able to answer the questions better than I will. Or Ginny for that matter."

"You've got the cell phone that Hermione bought you last Christmas, right?" Harry asked him, the smile stretching across his face as the idea formed in his mind.

"Yes. Why?"

"Most of the questions are logic questions but the ones that aren't I can text you the answer to," Harry said, sounding like Ron should have known this. "Just sit on my side of the table so that Hermione won't see what's going on."

"Harry you're brilliant!" Ron said, pulling Harry into a hug.

The two of them returned to the dining room where the girls were setting up the game table. They were whispering amongst themselves as they set up the refreshments in the center of the table. Upon seeing the boys return they fell quiet and sat down both of them on the same side. At least they wouldn't have to convince Ginny or Hermione to allow them to sit on the same side of the table. Which was a relief to Ron, especially if they were going to pull off the whole cheating thing without getting caught.

"Shall we begin?" Hermione asked, indicating the empty chairs across the table from herself and Ginny.

Ron watched as Harry, Hermione, and then Ginny each rolled the dice. Then the dice were held out to him. He took them confused and looked to Harry.

"You have to roll the dice to see who goes first," Harry explained. "The person with the highest number goes first."

"Oh."

Ron ended up rolling the highest number. Picking up the dice he rolled again. He moved his piece to an orange portion of the board. Receiving a question about a sport that he'd never heard of that Harry claimed was like Quidditch on the ground but with one hoop.

"What is Palming consider in basketball?" Hermione asked him, knowing that Ron wouldn't know anything about Muggle sports.

"Palming?" Ron asked, going deep into thought to get the answer. He'd never heard of basketball but it did seem somewhat similar to Quidditch. He was about to say that he didn't know when he felt his cell phone buzz in his hand. Looking done he saw the word Fouls on the screen. "Palming is considered a foul?" he said, sounding more like he was asking a question than answering one.

Hermione blinked in surprise and looked at the back of the card where the answers were. She blinked again and looked closer. "You're correct," she said suspiciously, looking at Ron as rolled the dice again.

"Is it so hard to believe that I could guess correctly about a sport that semi-similar to Quidditch?" Ron asked, moving his piece to a portion that reads roll again. Rolling again he found himself landing on a yellow portion.

"That's a historical question," Hermione said, knowing she'd end up tripping Ron up on this one. Wizards didn't really end up learning about Muggle history facts. So she doubted that Ron would know the answer to the question. "Name the war where the British fought the Americans."

Ron looked deep in thought as he pretended to think about the answer to the question. He could see Harry out of the corner of his eyes typing away on his cell phone. A few minutes later, Ron's cell phone buzzed. Without thinking he spouted out the first thing that he read.

"The Revolutionary War," said Ron triumphantly, going to pick the dice to roll again.

"That's wrong," said Hermione, stopping him. "The answer is the War of 1812. The Americans were British citizens up until they declared war to win their freedom. After that, they were knowns as Americans."

Ron looked over at Harry, who indicated that he should look down. Looking down he saw that there were two answers on his phone. The one that he'd spouted out without thinking and the right answer.

Throwing Harry a why did you do that sort of look, Ron passed the dice over to his best mate. Harry answered a couple of questions before he got an easy question about a game called darts wrong.

Ginny didn't fare too well and she was angry about it too. Ron could tell from the pointed glares and hisses to help me that Hermione was getting. But no matter how much she asked or glared, no help came Ginny's way. Ron sort of felt bad for Ginny.

Soon it was Ron's turn again. He rolled the dice and moved, taking a chip from one of the nearby baskets as Hermione read the question.

"What is the name of the boy next door in Little Women?" Hermione asked, looking at Ron expectantly. She could see Harry looking down at something underneath the table but didn't think anything of it at the moment. She knew this wasn't one that either of the boys would likely know the answer to.

"The answer is Laurie Lawerence," Ron said, reading the text that Harry had sent him. This kind of made him wonder how Harry knew this particular answer. Even Hermione seemed to be surprised that they knew this answer.

"That's correct," Hermione said, raising an eyebrow. "I thought that you would never read one of these chick books as you called them yesterday. How would you know that was the answer if you didn't read it?"

"Lucky guess," Ron said, quickly picking up the dice and rolling again before Hermione could ask another question.

After he got the next two questions right, Ron was sure that Hermione was onto what was going on. She watched him as he looked down at his phone to answer the next question she'd just asked.

"Don't bother answering the question," Hermione snapped, standing up. "You've been cheating this whole time, haven't you?"

"I..I...I don't what you're talking about," said Ron, putting his phone in the pocket of his shirt. "Why would I have to cheat at a game to win?"

"You did seem to be getting an awful lot things right that we've never heard of before," Ginny pointed out helpfully.

"Ginny's right. How were you getting the answers? I know you don't know how to look things up properly on the internet yet."

Ron chuckled at the remembrance of the paper towels he'd order instead of regular towels. He'd thought that it was a sort of Muggle towel but when he tried to dry himself with it and it disintegrated…

"Don't remind me," he murmured as Ginny started to giggle.

Hermione turned to Harry who had yet to put his phone away. Or for that matter take the answer from the last question of the game off his screen. Hermione's face went blank as she tried to control her temper.

"Maybe next time we play a game where there won't be Muggle questions to answer?" Ginny suggested, to the rest of the group's approval.

The rest of the evening passed without incident but no one would ever forget this game night. None of them would ever suggest playing Trivial Pursuit again. That is until a new generation of cheaters came along. But that's a story for another time.

I hope you all enjoyed A Simple Way to Cheat as much as I enjoyed writing it.